This is either the best thing ever....or the worst prank.

[Antares]

I am sorry to hear that.

It'd be a shame if those personal numbers of theirs somehow ended up on call lists. I'm not suggesting you do that. Only that it would be a shame.

[Sunshine]

Oh geeze..im so late but...those jerks!! And hugs. And chocolate.

[Seraph]

Aw this does not sound good... *hoof hugs*

Couple of thoughts-have they any explanation for their sudden shutdown and reappearance? If they were bankrupt before,where did they find the money to re-appear?

Even if the servers shut down,I'm sure there's something like the wayback machine which would bring up the site as it appeared on a previous date.

If you were working from their office and that was situated in VA,or if you were telecommuting and your home is in VA,wouldn't that prove that the work was done in VA?

No explanation, they're not answering my phone calls to their personal cells anymore. :P

I actually suggested that, but the DOL rep kept saying it wouldn't work, it wouldn't work. To be honest, I don't think they really knew how to handle something like this, and they would rather just make me deal with it, because it was "too complicated".

And yes. Yes it would prove that. Which they somehow ignored. Sigh.

[Kanalah]

I have the armored peacocks trained and ready.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sigh.

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Florida, you were warned.


(Yes, the gif returns YET AGAIN.)

[Kit-Ginevra]

Aw this does not sound good... *hoof hugs*

Couple of thoughts-have they any explanation for their sudden shutdown and reappearance? If they were bankrupt before,where did they find the money to re-appear?

Even if the servers shut down,I'm sure there's something like the wayback machine which would bring up the site as it appeared on a previous date.

If you were working from their office and that was situated in VA,or if you were telecommuting and your home is in VA,wouldn't that prove that the work was done in VA?

[Seraph]

We're done. Stick a fork in me, somehow I'm not surprised.

Just got a notice from the DOL that:

1) The company is in the middle of bankruptcy filings.
2) The company shut down their servers two weeks into the investigation, so "the website you provided was not found"
3) Since the website was down, they could not "completely prove that the work provided was done in Virginia".

....The ridiculousness of all of this is insane. My only choice at this point would be to hit the courts, but hey, they've already filed bankruptcy. It'd be a massive fight, with a good chance I'd end up with nothing.

Sigh.

[Chromatix]

This makes me want to sit in a high-backed chair, stroking a fluffy white cat in my lap, and musing to myself - and anyone else who will listen - that everything is going precisely according to plan.

Or, alternatively...

[fireheart]

Why J2K, I'm surprised you didn't bring up THIS one:

[Jay 2K Winger]

Yeah, that sound you heard was tons of government Dept. of Labor guys metaphorically going:


(Yes, it returns!)

[paintballworker]

*flips open the BBQ, and unlocks his booze cabinet*
Stop hogging all the popcorn
*munchs*
Go get em Seraph.

[Kanalah]

*passes out popcorn*

[Crossbow]

Oh, holy hell. The karmic bitchslap they're about to get has the potential to be epic.

I was dreading any sort of updates to this thread, but not anymore...

[Elspeth]

Note to self. Do not get on Seraph's bad side EVER!

I am glad there is some hope you and the others will get their money.

[Seraph]

I don't flippin' believe it.

Guess who contacted last week all "Hey, we are still trying to pay you, I mean, I haven't been paid in two weeks myself?" One guess, anything else and I will smack you. I promptly ripped him a new one, and he logged offline, and wouldn't answer any more IMs.

Well, it got more interesting yesterday. I follow their Facebook just for the sheer sake of keeping an eye on them, and had forgotten about it. Up until yesterday. I got a notification that they had made several new posts....about how they were all excited about their business and what they do.

Um, what?

Turns out they reopened their offices for business yesterday, without having paid anyone. I even called from a number they don't know, and their phones are all reconnected and taking calls.

This is good. Ohhhh, this is good.

Immediately afterwards, I called up the Dept of Labor. They were practically squealing in glee, and told me to file RIGHT THE HECK NOW. So I did. I just actually, like ten minutes ago before I posted this, sent twelve pages of documents and forms detailing what they did.

It's still not guaranteed. But now, at the least, the gov't is going to be ALL OVER THEM once this gets processed. Oh man, hopefully something comes of this. I so, so, SO want to see them get bitten hard for what they did to me and all the others. Totally unchristian of me, but eh, I'm only human. And seriously, I WANT THE SMITEDOWN.